The Giving Challenge: Revised Edition

Dear Blog Friends,

You may have noticed that I have not done a Giving Challenge the past couple weeks.

I have decided to do something different with it.

No longer will I post about who I am giving to, or their reaction.  I want my giving to be un-noticed.

What I do want to do on this blog, is show ideas of what others can do to give, and to also give encouragement in the giving process.

There’s a lot of “giving” in that sentence above, but you see (or read) my point.

The Giving Challenge is will still go on, and I hope you will be encourage!

Mother Says…

“Make your bed first thing in the morning.  It motivates you to have a clean room.”

It’s amazing how true this is.

Once that bed is made, it makes your room all the more less untidy.  It makes you motivated to keep that room at it’s best because that is your room of rest.  Oh, that rhymed!

You know that feeling you get when your home is a mess?  It makes you feel down, and just plain yucky.

Get Up! 

Make That Bed!

You’ll feel, oh, so much better for starting your day fresh and gettin’ the ball rollin’!

A Drive in the Country…

A drive in the country…

relieves my worries,

calms my heart,

makes me dream of my future.

 

The countryside shows me…

a simple,

quiet,

hard-working,

traditional life.

 

The birds soaring above green fields,

and majestic trees reaching for the large sky.

 

Homes nestled in the quietness of the rolling hills.

Men working their land with their family and neighbors.

 

Animals grazing

and chickens pecking and scurrying

in the front yard.

 

Daffodils surrounding the homestead,

while the laundry is blowing in the breeze

on the wash-line.

 

An old barn tells a story of hard work.

 

A farmhouse tells a story of family love.

 

A simple beauty it is, to me. 

So beautiful it makes me cry…

and sometimes makes me want to fly.

Prayer Answered

Thank you ALL for your prayers!

I just found out this morning that her husband is home safe!!  She is not allowed to give any details of what happened right now, but Praise God he's home!!!

Prayer for a Soldier

I just ask for prayer for an old high school friend of mine.  Her husband went missing on his way to work at a California base.  They have not yet found him.

They were married in June of 2010 and happily settled in California with her daughter; which is his step daughter.

Please pray for his safety, wherever he may be, and for my friend and her daughter.

Thank you.